shut up and dance walk the moon album year

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Still, there is no sense of indignation that success took this long to unfurl, he says. Petricca formed what eventually became power-popsters Walk the Moon when at college in 2008, and they had released two albums before hitting it big with Shut Up and Dance, taken from their 2014 album Talking Is Hard. Instead of launching like a firework and fizzling out like a damp squib, however, Walk the Moon epitomise a slow-burn success that is rare in modern music.

Shut Up and Dance could be any one-hit-wonder story: band forms, releases a smash hit and you never hear from them again. “They had no idea I was there in the audience.

“I think my favourite is stumbling in to a bar and hearing someone else do it on karaoke,” he laughs, speaking from Detroit as his band prepares to board an aircraft to Tokyo. Despite all that love, Petricca realised the song had “made it” in a less conventional manner. It has been used at weddings (and probably funerals), featured prominently in the Olympia Theatre’s pantomime and has even been covered by Irish country star Derek Ryan. His band’s name might not be that familiar, but if you have been near a radio or TV in the past 12 months, you will have heard their pop smash Shut Up and Dance. Just ask Nicholas Petricca, the lead singer of Walk the Moon.

Shut up and dance walk the moon album year